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Art
History 365
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| This course is an introduction to American art from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It surveys the major movements, artists, and aesthetic theories of this time period in a roughly chronological framework. The class begins at the moment the United States becomes the acknowledged center of the art world with Abstract Expressionism and traces the major movements of this era, including Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Feminist Art, Video Art, Performance Art and Neo-Expressionism. Notions and definitions of modernism and post-modernism will be considered as will issues of art and censorship, art as activism, and identity politics. |